Volume 51, Number 10 · June 10, 2004
Torture and Truth
By Mark Danner
Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade (The Taguba Report)
by Major General Antonio M. Taguba
Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and Other Protected Persons by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq During Arrest, Internment and Interrogation
by Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross, February 2004
Last November in Iraq, I traveled to Fallujah during the early days of what would become known as the 'Ramadan Offensive'—when suicide bombers in the space of less than an hour destroyed the Red Cross headquarters and four police stations, and daily attacks by insurgents against US troops doubled, and the American adventure in Iraq entered a bleak tunnel from which it has yet to emerge. I inquired of a young man there why the people of that city were attacking Americans more frequently each day. How many of the attacks, I wanted to know, were carried out by foreign fighters? How many by local Islamists? And how many by what US officers called 'FRL's'—former regime loyalists?[1]
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